A rancher for most of his life, he began his music career as half of the folk-era duo Ian and Sylvia and was also celebrated for his commitment to the culture of Canada’s ranch country.
Category: Country Music
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The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price
Country songs are often filled with tragedy and hard times. Price has detailed her own catalog of traumas in a memoir and her music, but also turns her lens outward on a new LP, “Strays.”
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2022: The Songs of the Year
Let’s talk about tracks by Ice Spice, Cardi B, Ethel Cain and many more of the 70 picks on our critics’ lists.
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Adeem the Artist, Crafting a Country Music of Their Own
Adeem Bingham has wrestled for decades with their identity as a Southern, Christian, queer songwriter. Can modern country music make space for them and their experiences?
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Grammys Snubs and Surprises: Bad Bunny, Rosalía, Zach Bryan and Abba
Beyoncé has the most nominations for the 2023 awards, and many recent perennials are back again. But some of music’s most inventive younger stars didn’t break through.
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Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar Lead 2023 Grammy Nominations
Brandi Carlile, Lizzo and Harry Styles, also near the top of the pack, will compete for the biggest awards at the 65th annual ceremony in February.
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Jeff Cook, a Founder of the Country Band Alabama, Dies at 73
His group had 32 No. 1 country singles, and his guitar and fiddle playing helped extend its reach to a generation raised on rock ’n’ roll.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87
With his pounding piano, his impassioned vocals and his incendiary performing style, Mr. Lewis lived up to his nickname, the Killer.
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Jody Miller, Singer of ‘Queen of the House’ and More, Dies at 80
Best known for a 1965 homemaker’s reply to a hobo’s refrain, the Oklahoma native had a hit the same year with the very different “Home of the Brave.”
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Remembering Loretta Lynn
A conversation about the country music titan’s sly radicalism and the many readings and misreadings of her work.